Has Google's view of AI risen to the status of universal truth?
No, "Google's view of AI" (which in and of itself already is kind of vague, there are plenty of people within Google who have very different ideas) has not risen to the status of universal truth.


  It sometimes seems that, when people don't understand something in a paper with the word Google anywhere in the authorship block, it is automatically assumed that the reader is wrong because the paper is of universal authority. They seem to jump to the assumption that their mind must adjust to whatever the paper states.


It does not seem like that to me at all. 

Yes, there has been research (from Google actually) indicating that there is some bias in paper review for example. When reviewers can see the author names and their affiliations, there is some measurable bias towards accepting them more often when they are from famous / well-known than when they are not famous. That includes Google, but also other companies (like Facebook, OpenAI) and universities and simply individuals who happen to be well-known even if their affiliations aren't. The same thing probably also happens occasionally even when double-blind reviewing is used, because... well, it's not difficult to guess where the anonymous authors may be coming from when the experiments described in their paper use a huge collection of TPUs.

It's nothing more than that though, just a bias. They get their papers accepted (and probably also cited) a bit more often. They definitely do not always get their papers accepted. Plenty of papers from Google have been rejected too (which means the reviewers did not simply accept whatever was written without critical thinking), and that will continue to happen too. It also happens more often than not that I see/hear others being critical or confused by things they write. There is still plenty of critical thinking going around.

Of course, the fact of the matter still is that they have managed to attract many world-class researchers (who were also already known as such before joining Google). It is no surprise that such researchers do have many good ideas, do write solid papers, and with Google they also do have the resources (in terms of computation, finances, development support from highly skilled software engineers, etc.) to execute more ideas, execute them more quickly, and more thoroughly. This naturally gives them an important voice, but they are not immune to criticism.